CHAPTER 67
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to create the State Health and Welfare Commission," same being Chapter 57, Volume 33, Laws of Delaware.
WHEREAS, the DELAWARE ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, now owns a certain farm or tract of land, with the buildings thereon erected, situate and being in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County and State of Delaware, and more particularly bounded and described as follows, to wit:
All that certain tract or parcel of land, situate in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, and State of Delaware, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, bounded by the Public Road known as "Barker Road," by lands of Frank F. Yearsley, Thompson Bailey, Walter Bailey, and George Hayes, more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of the Public Roads, called the "Newport and Gap Turnpike," and the "Barker Road," and running thence Westerly along the center of said Barker Road South 75 degrees 13 minutes west 579 feet; thence along lands of Frank F. Yearsley South 1 degree 1 minute East, 1310.1 feet; thence along lands of Thompson Bailey North 85 degrees 38 minutes East, 1451.0 feet to the center of the aforesaid Newport and Gap Turnpike; thence along the center line of said Turnpike North 31 degrees 14 minutes West, 233.7 feet; thence along lands of the party of the first part North 74 degrees 46 minutes East 590 feet to the center of Hyde Run; thence Northwesterly along the center of Hyde Run and along lands of Walter Bailey about 150 feet to a stone; thence continuing along the lands of said Walter Bailey, North 6 degrees 51 minutes West 330 feet to a stone; North 14 degrees 39 minutes East 359.8 feet to a stone; thence along lands of George Hayes, South 80 degrees 00 minutes West 306.3 feet; South 68 degrees 34 minutes West 55.3 feet; South 85 degrees 27 minutes West 44.8 feet; South 68 degrees 33 minutes West 129.8 feet to the center of the aforesaid Hyde Run; thence Northwesterly along the center of said Hyde Run and continuing along lands of George Hayes about 759 feet to the center of the aforesaid Barker Road; thence along the center of the said Barker Road South 68 degrees 43 minutes West 222.0 feet to the center of the aforesaid Newport and Gap Turnpike and place of Beginning, containing forty-nine and four-tenths (49.4) acres of land, more or less.
Which said farm or tract of land, for some years last past, has been used by the said Society for the care of persons afflicted with tuberculosis;
AND WHEREAS, the said THE DELAWARE ANTI-TUBERCULO- SIS SOCIETY has offered to convey the said lands and premises, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, unto the State of Delaware, free and clear of encumbrances, to be used as an institution for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis; now therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
Section 1. That Chapter 57, Volume 33, Laws of Delaware be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto after Section 10 of the said act two new sections to be known and numbered as Sections 11 and 12.
Section 11. That the Delaware State Health and Welfare Commission be and it is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to accept on behalf of the State of Delaware on July first, 1925 the conveyance of the aforesaid lands, premises, buildings and improvements thereon upon receiving a good fee simple title thereto and is further authorized, empowered and directed to manage, use and employ the said lands, premises, buildings and improvements thereon for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis, and to manage, conduct, repair, improve and otherwise use and employ, the said lands, premises, buildings and improvements thereon for the purposes aforesaid; and further that the said commission shall have the entire management, regulation and control of the said lands, premises, buildings and improvements thereon and the use thereof for the purposes aforesaid.
Section 12. The said commission shall have power to admit such persons to the institution maintained on said lands and premises for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis, as in the judgment of the said commission may be proper, and to provide for the cure, treatment and support of such persons, under such rules and regulations as may be from time to time established by the said commission.
Approved March 25, A. D. 1925.